. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e of the most importantfactors because of his immediate super-vision over the men, hiis been the weaklink in the chain. It is a pleasure tonote here, therefore, that during thelast two months the foremen at theCumberland shops have taken renewedinterest in the Saf(*ty work with mostgnitifying results. Sjxcial cicdit is due (1. V. l^ailc,machine shop foreman at ( umbei-land,who has made a record of which he maywell be i)roud, for not a single man underhis supervision was injured during themonth of November. This great recordwas made not by accident or b
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . e of the most importantfactors because of his immediate super-vision over the men, hiis been the weaklink in the chain. It is a pleasure tonote here, therefore, that during thelast two months the foremen at theCumberland shops have taken renewedinterest in the Saf(*ty work with mostgnitifying results. Sjxcial cicdit is due (1. V. l^ailc,machine shop foreman at ( umbei-land,who has made a record of which he maywell be i)roud, for not a single man underhis supervision was injured during themonth of November. This great recordwas made not by accident or by luck, butthrough a study of the situation, j)r()m|)tand efficient action taken to remedyunsafe; conditions and unusual interestin the welfare of his men. Prior to October 1, there had been anaverage of seven or eight hand injuriesand four or five eye injuries each month onthe emery wheel. After a little* studyMl. I]arl(^ determined to reveise thein(»\cment of the whcrl ^o ihal it would .■)() THE BALTIMORE AND OHTO EMPLOYES AL\GAZINE. ORDERLY INTERIOR OF CUMBERLANDMACHINE SHOP run from instead of towards the operator,and he had a glass shield applied as anadditional protection. Since that timethere has not been a single injury on theemery wheel. Foremen, take note!Study the accompanying picture. Shop-men, take note! Isnt this additionalwork and care well w^orth while? For the month of November theCumberland Division showed a decreaseof twenty-five per cent, in personal in-juries under the number made duringthe previous month and thirty-two andfour-tenths per cent, under the recordfor July, the first month of the fiscalyear. Twenty-five cases of broken glasses ingoggles were recorded in an eight-weekperiod, during the last part of 1915,caused by flying rivets and pieces ofsteel. In all of these cases there waspractically not a single injury to the is a great record. How many, wewonder, of these twenty-five cases wouldnow be suffering either from the aftereffects of
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